COMPUTER SCIENCE GIFT
Alumna and Google VP Sabrina Farmer Donates $250K to UNO For Computer Science Scholarship
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A $250,000 gift from alumna and Google vice president Sabrina Farmer will fund a computer science scholarship and support for the College of Sciences at the University of New Orleans.
Farmer, who earned her undergraduate degree in computer science from UNO, is vice president of engineering site reliability for many of Google’s billion-customer products such as Gmail, Search, Google Maps, Android and Chrome. She also oversees reliability of product infrastructure, including Google’s authentication, identity and abuse systems.
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